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Capital markets and investment

Accessing global equity and debt, IPOs, infrastructure and project finance.
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Tough times for fundraising

Following a heady fundraising period, private equity now faces more tricky times. How are institutional investor appetites shifting? And how do firms raise capital in today’s market?

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Regulation: anti-money laundering
  • Article
  • 06 Jun 2025
Corporate finance advisory has not been the top priority area for UK regulators’ oversight of anti-money laundering controls and process, in no small part due to the diligence of corporate finance firms. But that is changing as policymakers clamp down on financial crime.
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Insider dealing: Applied Nutrition’s London listing
  • Article
  • 10 Mar 2025
Applied Nutrition’s London listing has shown that investor appetite for high-quality companies is as healthy as ever, says Nicholas Neveling.
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Insight: warranty and indemnity insurance
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2025
M&A inherently has risks that investors want to mitigate through a deal process. It’s no surprise that warranty and indemnity insurance uptake is seeing an uptick.
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Trendwatch: utilities and resources M&A
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  • 10 Feb 2025
From water to energy, there’s a perfect storm driving M&A in the utilities and resources sector. Jason Sinclair looks at what’s in the pipeline.
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Long read: women in corporate finance
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2025
Around the deal table, female representation among corporate financiers has historically been poor. Retaining women and promoting them into senior M&A advisory roles is a long-term mission – and a journey firms are still on.
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Long read: powering up public offerings
  • Article
  • 10 Sep 2024
In the past two years, UK take-privates have outnumbered IPOs by significantly more than two to one in London. But the prospects are looking good. Marc Mullen reports.
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Read the Corporate Finance Faculty's good practice guidelines on capital markets and related areas.
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Financial due diligence
  • Report
  • 23 Oct 2024
This guideline explores the what, why, who and how of performing effective financial due diligence (FDD) and the outcomes it should achieve. It considers how FDD interacts with other areas of due diligence and how today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, including AI, is reshaping the FDD process.
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Debt for deals
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 26 Oct 2018
Debt for deals outlines the main features of the UK’s debt market, explores how it has developed since the start of the financial crisis in 2008 and offers guidance to corporate finance advisers and company executives on how to access the right debt finance for deals.
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Business Finance Guide
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 17 Mar 2025
This independent guide draws on the expertise of partners from across the finance industry and business community to provide information on the financing options that may be available to entrepreneurs, startups and businesses at every stage of development.
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National Security and Investment
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 03 Dec 2024
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 strengthens the government’s powers to call in and scrutinise transactions on grounds of national security. The legislation commenced on 4 January 2022. The ‘call-in power’ may be used in relation to transactions that took place on or after 12 November 2020.
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